Castro, as you know, is the former school bus driver who committed the particularly heinous crimes of kidnapping, imprisoning, raping, beating and torturing three young women over a decade or more. They finally escaped May 6 when one of the women, Amanda Berry, broke free.

Castro ultimately pleaded guilty to 937 counts and was sentenced to life in prison plus 1,000 years. Michelle Knight was the only one of his three victims to testify at his sentencing: “You took 11 years of my life away, and I have got it back. I spent 11 years in hell. Now your hell is just beginning.”

Castro insisted he was no “monster” but just a sick man addicted to porn.

“I know most of greater Cleveland will be looking on this day as joyous, but for his family this is anything but,” Weintraub told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “He’s still a human being, this is still a civilized society. There’s still an obligation to prevent our inmates from committing suicide.”

Which is true enough. And when it doesn’t work out, especially for a guy like this, the world keeps spinning. Wishing death on someone seems needlessly harsh, yet wishing it weren’t justice seems pointlessly naive.

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